TweetSmart-Beta ETFs are the fastest growing asset class in the market. Benefitting from both the demand for low-cost passive funds and investors’ desire to have exposure to particular styles, on a global basis smart-beta funds assets under management at smart beta ETFs are up 18.3% this year to a record ...

TweetWhich US regulator is in charge of monitoring cryptocurrencies? That issue came to the fore as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is apparently investigating a June 21 “flash crash” in the cryptocurrency Ether, according to a Bloomberg report. A top regulatory lawyer doesn’t see the regulator jurisdiction issue as a ...

TweetThe Bank of International Settlements (BIS), known as the “central bank of central banks,” has been outdoing itself lately. Not only did it discover $14 trillion in debt hidden in “ footnotes,” but in its recent report titled “Strong outlook with low inflation spurs risk-taking,” “pretty much summarized (the) disinflation ...

Tweet“Is the oil industry ready to give investors what they want?” asks a new research note from equity analysts at Sanford C Bernstein. After nearly three years of industry instability, as the price of oil has remained depressed, oil majors have cut costs and mega projects have been put on ...

TweetUS and Philippine troops launched new joint counter-terrorism exercises on Monday, days after President Rodrigo Duterte, a fierce critic of Washington, reversed course in favour of pursuing one of Asia’s oldest military alliances. Duterte vowed last week to be “friendly” with the United States, in contrast to comments he made ...

TweetSeveral thousand people have gathered in Barcelona in protest against an alleged excessive use of force by Spanish police during Catalonia’s referendum on independence this weekend. Tuesday’s protest follows a call by Catalan trade unions for a general strike in Spain’s northeastern region to condemn police violence, that left almost ...

TweetThe United States ordered the expulsion of 15 Cuban diplomats on Tuesday, accusing Havana of failing to protect their US counterparts from harm in a series of mystery “attacks” on their health. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, however, that Washington would maintain diplomatic relations even though the size of ...

TweetFormer White House adviser Steve Bannon warned that if President Trump changes his course on gun control it’ll “be the end of everything,” reports Axios. When asked what would happen if Mr. Trump decides to agree with Democrats and push tougher gun legislation, Mr. Bannon told Axios reporter Jonathan Swan ...

TweetChinese railways set a record in daily passenger traffic as more than 15 million trips were made on National Day on Sunday, the first day of an eight-day holiday, and over 113 million visitors flooded domestic resorts, the rail and tourist authorities said on Monday. It is the year’s longest ...

TweetBritish police rearrested Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya on Tuesday amid an ongoing extradition request from India, where he is accused of fraud. Mallya left India in March 2016 owing more than $1 billion after defaulting on loan payments to state-owned banks and allegedly misusing the funds. The flamboyant financier, who ...

TweetStorm-battered Puerto Rico would receive an extra $1 billion for its Medicaid program under a House GOP bill to renew a critical insurance program for children. Unlike the states, Puerto Rico receives a limited amount of federal money for Medicaid, the insurance program for the poor, so it risks running ...

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